Apparatus for curing tobacco.



PATENTED FEB. 19, 1907.

B. L. DIXON.

APPARATUS FOR CURING TOBACCO.

APPLICATION FILED OUT. 13, 1906.

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APPLICATION FILED OUT. 13, 1906.

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' out in the appended claims.

UNITED: STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BENJAMIN LEWIS DIXON, OF GEORGETOWN, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO G. H. WATTS, OF GEORGETOWN, KENTUCKY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 19, 1907.

Application filed October 13. IQOG-ElSax-ial No. 338.808-

To all who-m, itmay concern:

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN LEWIS DIXON, a citizen of the .United States, residing at Georgetown, in the county of Scott and State of Kentucky, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Curing Tobacco; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to an ap aratus for curing tobacco, and has for its ob ect to pro vide an exceedingly simple, inexpensive, and durable device of this character adapted to contain a fire and which can be safely and conveniently laced in a building or tobaccobarn and whic i can be readily carried therein.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in the construction and novel arrangement of parts hereinafter de scribed and shown, and particularly pointed In the drawings forming part of this specification, and in which like numerals of ref erence designate corresponding parts, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the tobacco-curing alplparatus constructed in accordance with t s invention. Fig. 2 is a .vertical sectional view.

Referrin to the drawings, 1 designates the body 0 the ap aratus, which is of cylindrical shape, as siiown, and which is provided with a perforated bottom 2, supported by legs 3. The interior of the body or cylinder 1 is provided with a shaker 4, which is ada ted to shake the ashes and cause them to all through the perforated bottom into the coneshaped pan 5. The pan 5 is connected with the body 1 b means of arms 6 and is further braced by t e outwardly-spreading legs 3,

which pass through slots in the periphery of scribed comprisin the pan. As stated, the pan 5 is coneshaped, by which the ashes falling therein will gravitate toward the center thereof.

The up er portion of the cylinder is provided wlt h pockets-j for the reception of arms 8, connected Wlth the cone-shaped top of the device. The cone-shaped to is considerably larger in diameter than t e cylinder or body of the device, for the purpose of causing the heat to spread in all directions as it emanates from the fire. This device can be easily carried from place. to place by means of a rod 9, which is inserted in apertures in the upper part of the body 1. The rod 9 passes through the pockets 7 and the arms 8, by which the top is locked in its 0- sition. The rod 9 can be inserted in ot er a ertures for carrying the device around s ould it be inadvisable to use it as locking means.

What I claim is 1. A portable apparatus of the class de a cylinder, adapted to contain a fire, sai cylinder having a perfo rated bottom, a shaker arranged on the top thereof, and a cone-sha ed pan arranged beneath said cylinder,.an spaced therefrom.

2. A. portable apparatus of the class described, comprising a cylindrical body, a perforated bottom, a cone-shaped ash-pan, connected with the cylinder and spaced therefrom, and having slots in its periphery, and

outwardlyspreading legs, supporting the body of the apparatus, and passing through said slots.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. BENJAMIN LEWIS DIXON.

Witnesses:

. E. B. Yarns,

JNO. S. Games. 

